History
Post War Whiston Grange
After the war Service Camps were set up throughout the country not only to house troops, but Polish soldiers, prisoners of war, teachers in
training, and building craftsmen who were being either trained or employed on the housing programme. From 1946 Whiston Grange was used for
this purpose. (There was also a military camp to house about 40 in the grounds of Wentworth Park, and places at Bramley and Brinsworth.)
In 1950, Whiston Grange, now a research centre for the specialist steel producers, Jessop Steel of Sheffield, was concentrating on mettalurgical research, supplementing research already being carried out at Brightside, Sheffield.
It was announced in February, 1967, of the decision to convert two years laboratory work at the research centre at Whiston Grange, for Jessop-Saville of Sheffield, into installing the world's first commercial casting plant for titanium and titanium alloys. This would open a new field for exotic metals whose use until then had been restricted mainly to the aircraft and space industries.
Newspaper cutting dated 2nd February, 1967.
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